from a Paris Review interview with Stephen Greenblatt, new book on Adam & Eve.

[Laura Kelber]

Saw it and, yes, it's definitely worth seeing. I agree that it was 20 or so
minutes too long. The final bit of dialogue was a little too overt.

Only got the biblical interpretation from reading the reviews afterwards.
It also works as a meditation on the creative process.

Laura

On Sep 28, 2017 8:14 PM, "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has there been any mention of Darren Aronofsky's new film Mother!
> here? Very Biblical allegory. Seems like one a bunch of P-listers
> would enjoy, ie it's totally effing bonkers. While watching it I
> couldn't tell if it was brilliant or really really terrible, but you
> definitely need to discuss it afterwards, all of which makes for a
> recommendation. Although be warned - it could have been cut by 20
> minutes, and there's at least one awful moment that will test the
> mettle of most viewers.
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Allan Balliett
> <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did she have some place where he could put it?
> >
> > -Allan in WV, where we think of this sort of things if we aren't getting
> > enough opioids
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> “It occurred to him then that his penis was somehow not quite his own,
> >> that it was Eve’s bone.”
> >
> >
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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